28 November 2016 Edition

BREXIT has again demonstrated the undemocratic nature of partition. Therefore the time IS right to talk about, to plan and to build for unity, a new Sinn Féin discussion document says. And it argues that the British identity of many people in the North must be accommodated in any agreed, united Ireland. Free article

RECONCILIATION AND HEALING in our society are an imperative for the Irish Peace Process. But their achievement continues to be both challenging and elusive. The required political and civic critical mass to bring them about still does not exist. We have to collectively work at building momentum to make them the new phase of the Peace Process. Free article

THE Irish Government is being pressed by Sinn Féin elected representatives, North and South, to challenge claims by British Secretary of State James Brokenshire that “the whole of Lough Foyle is within the UK”. Free article

DECLAN KEARNEY, Sinn Féin National Chairperson, has launched ‘Towards an Agreed and Reconciled Future’, a document that is an outworking of the ‘Uncomfortable Conversations’ initiative pioneered by Declan Kearney and An Phoblacht since 2012. Free article

“LANSDOWNE ROAD is a lame duck agreement,” Sinn Féin Public Expenditure spokesperson David Cullinane said when he unveiled the party’s Framework for New Public Sector Pay Agreement at Leinster House on 15 November. Free article

COINCIDING with the 45th anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar bomb attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1971 that killed 15 nationalist civilians in north Belfast, Ciarán Mac Airt, researcher and author of The McGurk’s Bar Bombing: Collusion, Cover-Up and a Campaign for Truth, will face cross-examination at an Information Rights Tribunal in London as he seeks the release of vital British Army files. Free article